Non Lethal Weapons As Legitimizing Forces

This work discusses the technologies and ethics of non-lethal weapons, for example blinding someone with a laser, leaving them blind forever, versus killing them outright. As mankind finds ever more impious ways to kill and maim, some look to non-lethal weapons as a fix. Brian Rappert discusses the technologies involved and the ethics of, for example blinding someone with a laser, leaving them blind forever, versus killing them outright.